Seven Ways to Change the World: Reviving Faith and Politics [Paperback]

I had always been a skeptic of the church of personal peace and prosperity of righteous people standing in a holy huddle while the world rages outside the stained glass. But Ive learned that there are many people of the cloth who are also in the world from debt cancellation to the fight against AIDS and for human rights they are on the march. Jim Wallis isnt just part of this movement hes out front carrying a bullhorn. --Bono, U2

Following on from the New York Times bestselling God's Politics, Jim Wallis's Seven Ways to Change the World speaks to a people hungry for a politics of solutions and hope. It offers a plan for solving some of the biggest issues of our time: poverty and economic justice, global warming, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking, genocide and the ethics of war. Rather than reciting a laundry list of doom and dread, Wallis identifies seven basic commitments for political involvement that could make the ultimate difference in resolving the great challenges we face. For too long, he says, ideological religion has been part of the problem, but now an engaged spirituality could be a part of the solutions. Writing out of the US context, his message has universal resonance, reminding us of the 'common good' that lies at the heart of social reform. Seven Ways to Change the World will help us to rediscover our moral centre and infuse us with the inspiration and passion necessary to build the kinds of movement that transform politics from the outside in.

Jim Wallis, an evangelical, is the leading figure at the crossroads of religion and politics in America today. He is the founder of Sojourners, a US network of progressive Christians working for justice and peace. He is a bestselling author and his columns appear in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.